Song rate correlates with paternal care and survival in willow tits: Advertisement of male quality?

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 891-904

  Welling, P Petteri ^a   Rytkönen, Seppo O ^a   Koivula, Kari T ^a   Orell, Markku I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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EID: 0040428314     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997x00214     Document Type: Article

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